About Rilda
Rilda Smith is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist with 22 years of practice in Oklahoma. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and those facing grief, sleep problems, or big life changes. Rilda keeps language direct and practical so worried parents can read easily on a phone.
She approaches work with calm, steady support and clear ideas for next steps. Rilda centers conversations on the person sitting across from her while also noticing how relationships shape problems.
Background and approach
That means she listens to daily routines, family ties, work demands, and cultural background to see where change might help. She uses straightforward methods to help people notice patterns and try small, doable shifts. Her approach includes short-term practical strategies and deeper narrative work about the stories people tell themselves.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Mindfulness techniques help with sleep, stress, and staying grounded during hard emotions. She also draws on client-centered and motivational styles to keep sessions collaborative.
Clients set goals and Rilda helps break those goals into manageable steps. She pays attention to caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, and life events like divorce or relocation. Rilda has particular experience supporting people dealing with abandonment and attachment concerns, multicultural issues, and transitions back to the United States for Third Culture Kids.
She invites people to be curious about what might work for them and to try small experiments between sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rilda often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and helps with anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns by breaking issues into small, testable steps.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. These tools can reduce immediate stress, improve sleep, and make emotions feel less overwhelming. Client-Centered Therapy is part of her style too, which means she listens carefully and follows the client's lead when planning next steps.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the situation and adjust the plan over time based on what helps.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can be used for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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